Halloween

Since it's halloween, the mall is of course passing out candy to all the lucky hundred something kids that pass by, and b/c of this..... us workers are stuck with nothing to do, UNLESS you're the one passing out the candy.


What that means is, basically, the store is DEAD (no pun intended XD). No ones coming inside to buy, and when they do, it's to buy something small. I think we only made like $150 so far ><><

Visiting Guys Pt. 2

I forgot to mention this the other day.

One guy that came in with his girlfriend was looking at all the "new" characters in the store and randomly started talking about the old days.

"Look at this stuff, back then, my sister used to collect Tuxedo Sam stuff... whatever happened to that?"

NICE *thumbs up* This guy gets extra bonus stars from me for remembering TUXEDO SAM of all characters!

Manic Monday

Okay, so it's not really manic, but it was a bit tiring.

Today was a day of 1) cleaning, 2) wrapping 3) rearranging

Nothing about customers today (although some really really REALLY nice lady bought our $120 bag with matching $60 wallet XD)

What Saturdays Bring

I don't usually work Saturdays anymore. I think the last time i worked a Saturday shift was a year ago, and that's when i first started working. So working yesterday felt refreshing, especially since I got to interact with a whole load of NEW types of people.

1) A grandma came into the store looking for a gift to buy for her granddaughter who will be turning 3 or 4. She was nice and all, but she took up WAYYYY too much of my coworker and I's time, AND the other customers. A huge line formed behind her, which i wasn't really used to seeing. Everyone behind her was buying like 2 or 3 small items, One girl even had to pay me for a piece of gum without me ringing her up yet b/c of the line. So i told her she could just go.

2) B/c of the line that the lady held up, I had this rude group of ladies that left a HUGE mess at our store. They either didn't want to wait in line anymore, or they just changed their mind. I think they didn't want to wait in line. I had pulled out a cellphone charm out for her and when she left we thought she stole it. Luckily we found it all hidden within our wallet section.

That's just half the story about her. Earlier when they first came in, they were being really rude to me, and they weren't much helpful at all. She kept telling me to pick up a whole bunch of charms for her, and she ended up picking the one she wanted in the first place. And when i explained to her what the whole Kabuki theme was meant for she was like "oh eww, it's okay, i'll just go with that one"... what's that supposed to mean lady?

3) These 2 kids later in the night asked me why a guy was singing "UMBRELLA" on our store stereo. Okay, why are you asking ME that? How would i know why a guy chose to sing a cover of that?

Then they proceded to ask me "I thought there are copyright laws on songs, how could he be able to sing it?" again, why are you asking ME that?

4) Some rude ass Asian (yes, i'm pointing her out lol) lady and her rude ass kids too put a whole bunch of things on the counter. I asked her if she wanted separate bags and she told me yes, so i started ringing her up. Typically we remove all the plastic stuffing from bags so they can be flat. So i took them out, and they asked me to put it back in. You could have told me that before i threw them around, but whatever. So i put it back in and asked her how she wanted t separate them, she said "yeah yeah, separate them." i asked her HOW she wanted them and again she says "yeah, i want them separate" so i had to force out a "WHICH BAGS DO YOU WANT THEM IN?" without my annoyed tone in the voice. So she stuck them in the bags herself (i shoulda just given you one damn bag..) and when i told her how much it was gonna be she shoved her debit card in my face -__-

The Rude, The Annoying and The Bratty

I had forgotten to write about my Wednesday misfortunes. Two seperate incidents, but all within the same time span. How the hell could that have happened?

1) This one family comes in. And this day, we got a shipment, so some of our boxes are laid out in rows next to the register against the . The mom of the family gave me attitude saying "can MOVE these boxes, so my daughter can get some stickers?" So i move one of the boxes aside, and once i do that, she moves one of our boxes, but kind of kicks it off to the side. EXCUSE ME LADY, BUT DON'T BE DAMAGING OUR STUFF ALRIGHT?

When it was time to ring her up, i didn't want to, so who i was working with did it instead.

2) These two ladies come in, and one of them brings her daughter with her (btw, they're both pregnant, though i have no idea why that matters haha~). The daughter was looking for a toy to buy, and sees our little pocket play sets. The lady asks me how small it is, i tell her it might not be suitable for her daughter since theres a lot of smaller pieces in there. She says ok and asks if there's a bigger size, i tell her only comes in one size. So she picks up the same toy but in a different scenario, and asks me if THAT comes in a bigger size. I tell her NO, B/C IT ONLY COMES IN ONE SIZE. If the other one didn't have one in a bigger size, what makes you think that THAT will come in a bigger size?

She then picks up the same damn toy and asks AGAIN IF IT COMES IN A BIGGER SIZE.
WTH IS WRONG WITH YOU LADY? You think after 2 seconds it's just going to magically get bigger?

I swear....
she ended up buying that toy anyways (okay?), i didnt even want to ring her up either..
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Today brings a bratty kid. a SERIOUSLY.BRATTY.KID. (or two i might say).
This father lets his son and daughter roam around the store a bit and being as nice as he could, because i know he didnt want to be in the store because of the tone in his voice, he allows both children to buy ONE item each.

The little boy immediately picks up a 3-way writer and wanted it. So he held onto it the entire time they were in there.

The little girl kept wandering around and ended up picking an EXPENSIVE charm.. CELLPHONE charm i might add, from our display case.

Now, the dad says "okay let's go you both got ONE item each."
The little girl starts complaining and goes "I WANT TWO ITEMS"

The dad tells her no and says only ONE
She kept saying "I WANT TWO ITEMS!!! WHY DADDY? YOU SAID I CAN HAVE TWO"
the dad says " I said you get ONE item or NONE, NOT two.."
She starts to pout and uses this as a comeback "IM TELLING MOMMY WHEN WE GET HOME"


........................... yeah... my thoughts exactly

So while the little 8 year old girl was complaining, her 4 or 5 year old brother kept whining to his dad about opening up the pencil "OPEN IT DADDY" it's like, kid... SHUSH.

Even outside the store, you could hear faint "WHY CANT I HAVE TWO? *pouts*" and "OPEN IT NOW DADDY" UGHHH... HOW ANNOYING, BRATTY KIDS!

Visiting Guys

Guys are always the funniest customers when they're actually going into the store for their own purposes. (this excludes father's with their kids, guys who want to hit on the girls and the guys that are being sarcastic).

Today, some guy came in with a friend (who was a girl by the way) and asked if we had any Keroppi stuff. Then he goes off an explains if we had any of those mechanical pencil cases, that everyone loved back in the day (myself included ^_^). He goes on saying that it really showed how old he was when i told him that the company doesn't really make those anymore. And the fact that he OWNED one, WITH matching pencils and erasers HAHA~

This reminds me of when this group of guys came into the store and asked me what the name of "the BOY Hello Kitty" was and continued on saying "Dear.. Dear... Dear Dan?" (me: Dear Daniel?) "YEAH HIM! DEAR DANIEL! I GOT IT MAN" O_____O

Yeppppp, the guys who actually know their stuff are the best XD

Rainy Friday~

So you'd think that there would be a lot of people at the mall because it's a Friday, but the fact that it was raining didn't help much. Though, since it was raining quite hard, it would have been a good idea to go shopping indoors since you're at least doing something.. get a little exercise, get some food, look at new items, stay indoors, keep warm, etc..

What did today's rainy Friday bring in? Freaky people.. especially annoying ones.

1) Some lady tried to ask me for help by shouting at me from the opposite end of the store. if you have a question, please come up to me.. otherwise how would i know you're talking to me in the first place. Also, drop the attitude before coming into the store. It's a children's store alright.

2) Speaking of attitudes, this one lady was in one pissed off mood for some reason. Not only did she just grab the items off the counter after she bought them, she didn't return my greeting when i thanked her and wished her a good night, but she just stared at me for the longest time before leaving with her kids. WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STARING AT?!

3) Using a card on a $2.99 purchase is stupid (plus it's not like you can do that at our store anyways, we have a $5 min XD)

4) Don't ask for SPECIFIC items, when you're not going to buy them anyways.

Common Questions..

Usually people always ask the same things over and over again like:
"How much are your gum?" or "Do you have anymore of.. blah-blah-blah"

Today's common question was "do you have anymore of bags?"
(me: *shakes head* no, it's whatever is out there)

then she asks again "how about this style? Do you have anymore bags for this one?
(me: *shakes head* Nooo.... it's whatever is out there....... -_______-)

then... "not even later? It's just going to be these?
(me: *shakes head* nope.. for these items, it's all they will probably make)


It's funny though, she shot those questions at me hella quick.

the same questions came at me from another lady about erasers.. O___O

The Boring End

Nothing special today, only that it's one of those days where it's really dead.

So far, we've probably made about $100 and that's it. Isn't that sad? And it's already 7pm. The mall's been open since 10...... that's how many hours? haha